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Brazil: A year of Jair Bolsonaro
Concessions and privatisations
Like pension reform, the government’s plans for privatisation are fairly unpopular with the electorate but meet with enthusiasm from the business sector. Although no company under direct state control was sold off in 2019, the Bolsonaro government has continued the investments partnerships programme (PPI) begun under Temer, overseeing concessions in infrastructure and energy. It has also moved forward with divestment within state companies, and laid the groundwork for some further-reaching privatisations in 2020.
- A new era in Brazilian politics
- The 2018 election
- Bolsonaro's inner circle
- Redrawing relations with congress
- A neo-liberal agenda
- An ambitious reform programme
- Concessions and privatisations
- Encouraging results
- A new way of doing politics
- Moro and Lava Jato
- The independence of institutions
- Scandals
- Tough-on-crime talk
- Attempts at implementing legislation
- Falling crime rates
- 'Brazil above everything, God above all'
- The crusade against 'cultural Marxism'
- Rhetoric has consequences
- The economy and security remain the key to re-election hopes